one question to Christians about hell?

Question

I never quite understood how this works.

so Abdul the Muslim Jacob the Jew and Patel the Hindu are all going to burn in hell right next to Pol Pot, Stalin, and Hitler who murdered millions of innocent people.

please explain me how not acepting Jesus is equlivalent to mass murder?

ok James how do fundamentalist Christians explain this

Answer 1

It certainly seems a little unfair, doesn't it? But you also have to consider the Get Out of Hell Free Card (tm.)

Remember that you or I can avoid being roasted for eternity (or simply separated from god, depending on your interpretation of hell) simply by accepting Jesus before we die. Jacob the Jew, Albert the Atheist, and their friends Abdul and Patel can all enjoy an all-you-can-eat buffet for all of eternity if we would only do this one simple thing.

One interesting thing to remember is that we don't know whether Pol Pot, Stalin, or Hitler made this last minute deal. If they did, we can be sure that they'll be up there in heaven with us.

There's nothing, it seems, that is so terrible that it can't be forgiven.

But seriously, I don't believe in Hell. Examining this from an outsider's viewpoint it looks like nothing more than a slick business practice. "Bad credit? No credit? Do what you want, just sign before you die."

This is the reason that of all the faiths I find Christianity the hardest to swallow.

Answer 2

For all I know, Jacob the Jew might be sitting right next to Pol Pot in HEAVEN. (Especially the Jacob the Jew from the OT---didn't God give him the dream about Jacob's Ladder?---surely he wouldn't send him to hell, too. Not even the most fundamentally fundamamental of the Christian fundamentalists would say that THAT Jacob ended up in hell. I'm pretty fundamental myself, and I wouldn't.)

I know I've had new life given to me through accepting Jesus Christ. I must leave God to judge all other people. God knows the motives and secret hurts of the heart. I don't know the ways God might reveal himself, perhaps close to the time of death, to the worst sinner (who maybe once was a chronically abused child.) I don't know how arrogance and hatred and enmity toward God might fill the heart of someone who "looks good" on the outside. I can't judge.

I can only warn people that hell is, at the very LEAST, a real possibility for people who run away from God. And I can only encourage people that Jesus Christ stands waiting to forgive, and to help people walk through life into an eternity with him.

Answer 3

I was always taught that you will be surprised who you meet in heaven.

If you declare that Jesus is Lord and that he died for your sins and overcame death and ascended to heaven to sit at the right hand of God then you have been redeemed. Now if you believe this and kill 10,000 people you will still go up to heaven and not be here for the rapture (or the end times). But what will happen is that you will stand infront of God to be judged and you will have to back up and stand for everything you did in your life, good or bad. Now if you Killed 10,000 I pretty sure the Lord will as you was that the Christian thing to do. Undoubtedly your answer will be no and you will be cast out of heaven.

If you believe in God and you don't do his will then you are not a Christian.

So even if Hitler makes it to heaven he won't be staying.

Answer 4

Not all Christians think that way, just the crazy fundamentalist ones do. I think believing in God and living a good life gets you into heaven.

I just asked a question about whether or not most Christians think Jews go to hell. Plenty of fundamentalist ones answered that question, so look at their answers.

They all basically say the same thing, if you don't believe in Jesus, you burn in hell. Ask him to save you and *poof* you get into heaven. Some Christians think God should be more of the focus, and the Bible and church aren't needed to get into his good graces.

Answer 5

If you read through the Mosaic law in the Old Testament, you'll find that it often appears to be merciless and harsh.
The penalty for violating the Shabbat or for cursing one's parents for example, was death.
Christians sometimes forget, that the same God who sent Jesus to die for our sins, gave the law to the people of Israel.
We often fail to understand, that God is not only love, but that he is also holy and just.
The only way anybody can stand before him, is through the blood of Jesus. Even if you are a good person, you are guilty before God.

Here's how Paul put it in Romans 3, 23

23for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God

or Isaiah in Isaiah 64, 6

6 But we are all like an unclean thing,
And all our righteousnesses are like filthy rags;

In the end, it's not your sin though, that will cause you to go to hell. It's the rejection of the sacrifice God provided for your sins.

Answer 6

Okay not all Christians think that way. I don't claim to know the mind of God nor am I the judge of who's going to hell. Can't even say I will not be going there, it's a hope to be saved. Now ask a fundalmentalist and you'll get a different answer. Read Jesus's words in a bible and message I think that is a better way to gauge him.

Answer 7

James 2:10 For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become accountable for all of it. 11 For he who said, "Do not commit adultery," also said, "Do not murder." If you do not commit adultery but do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.

If someone tries to be justified before God on the basis of keeping his law then they have to keep every single law or they are guilty. He doesn't judge people on a sliding scale. Either you are innocent or guilty and if you are guilty you go to hell.

One thing that I have noticed about questions like yours is that they seem to set people into categories as if one group was going to Heaven while another group was going to hell. In each generation God will save a remnant from the Jews and the gentiles as it has been throughout history according to the Bible.

All the people of Jewish descent are not going to hell just like all of the people who are born of Christian parents are not going to heaven. Only those individuals whom God calls out of this world are going to be saved.

1 Corinthians 12:13 For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body--Jews or Greeks, slaves or free--and all were made to drink of one Spirit.

Colossians 3:11 Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all. 12 Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience,

Answer 8

EVERYONE will get a chance to go to heaven if we all repent of our sins. On this earth it is important to live by a "good" lifestyle if everyone does that then we have a chance of going to heaven..then at Judgement day everyone will get a chance to accept or reject Jesus Christ as lord and savior. Jesus taught that since christians know about Him they have GREATOR responsibility and will be punished MORE severely because they knew in advance, while someone who didn't know Jesus will get punished less before entering heaven>

Answer 9

It is very simple. If you accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, you will have eternal life. If you do not you will go to hell. This is because we are all sinners and all fall short of the Glory of God. Jesus paid the price that we all deserve. So we just have to accept what he has done for us. This applies to anyone. But the people mentioned in the question are so evil that I doubt that it would even occur to them that they could do this.

Answer 10

No one can say who is and who isn't going to hell. It's hard for people to accept that one man could save the world because it's so simple-Everyone has the right to believe what is right for them, but ultimately every man decides his own fate by what he chooses to believe.
Ok, I'm sure you've heard the garden of Eden story...? All they had to do was NOT eat the apple....Today..all you have to do is believe...so simple, yet people will still screw it up!
I would rather believe and take my chances that I was wrong on this side of it...If I'm wrong then I will be reincarnated and get to try it again right? ( :